Nancy Moran

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Nancy Ann Moran (born December 21, 1954 in Dallas , Texas ) is an American evolutionary biologist , microbiologist , insect physiologist , and bee researcher. She is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Texas at Austin and a co-founder of the Yale Microbial Diversity Institute.

life and work

At Yale University, Moran mainly worked on the pea louse ( Acyrthosiphon pisum ) and its symbionts
For some years now, Moran has been working increasingly with honey bees
In 2012, together with Waldan K. Kwong , she described the composition of the honey bee's intestinal flora and the two bacterial species Gilliamella apicola and Snodgrassella alvi (picture).

Scientific career

Nancy A. Moran began her undergraduate studies at the University of Texas in 1972. She started as an art student and later switched to philosophy. For a compulsory elective course, she chose an introduction to biology, which developed her interest in biology. During her senior year project at college, she studied animal behavior, which gave her the opportunity to do independent research and solidify her interest in evolution and behavior. She applied to graduate school and ended up at the University of Michigan , where she studied with WD Hamilton and Richard D. Alexander .

Moran received her bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Texas in 1976, her masters degree from the University of Michigan in 1978, and her PhD in zoology from the University of Michigan in 1982 . In 1984 she was a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in Czechoslovakia and from 1984 to 1986 she completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Northern Arizona University . From 1986 to 2010 she was a research professor at the University of Arizona and from 2010 to 2013 at Yale University . Here she was Professor of the William H. Fleming Chair and focused on the pea louse ( Acyrthosiphon pisum ) and their bacterial symbionts . In 2013 she returned to the University of Texas at Austin as a professor, where she continues to focus on research into bacterial symbionts in aphids, bees and other insects. From 2014 to 2017 she held the Leslie Surginer Chair and since 2018 the Warren J. and Viola Mae Raymer Chair at the University as Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

Research priorities

Nancy A. Moran's research is focused on studying the interactions between microorganisms and insects. She works together with her group on the composition, evolution, interaction and effects of different microbiomes . While she originally focused primarily on research on aphids and their symbionts, in recent years she has increasingly focused on the intestinal flora of honeybees and other insects. In 2012, together with Waldan K. Kwong , she analyzed the composition of the intestinal flora and described the two bacterial species Gilliamella apicola and Snodgrassella alvi and their interactions in the bee intestine.

Awards

Nancy A. Moran has received numerous awards for her research, including:

Publications (selection)

Nancy A. Moran regularly publishes articles on her research in academic journals, including

  • WD Hamilton, PA Henderson, NA Moran: Fluctuations of environment and coevolved antagonist polymorphism as factors in the maintenance of sex .. In: RD Alexander, DW Tinkle: Natural Selection and Social Behavior: Recent Research and New Theory. Chiron Press, New York 1980; Pp. 363-382.
  • NA Moran: A 48-Million-Year-Old Aphid - Host Plant Association and Complex Life Cycle: Biogeographic Evidence . In: Science . 245, No. 4914, 1989, pp. 173-175. doi : 10.1126 / science.245.4914.173 . PMID 17787877 .
  • MA Munson, P. Baumann, MA Clark, L. Baumann, NA Moran, DJ Voegtlin, BC Campbell: Evidence for the establishment of aphid-eubacterium endosymbiosis in an ancestor of four aphid families . In: Journal of Bacteriology . 173, No. 20, 1991, pp. 6321-6324. PMID 1917864 . PMC 208962 (free full text).
  • NA Moran: Accelerated evolution and Muller's rachet in endosymbiotic bacteria . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 93, No. 7, 1996, pp. 2873-2878. doi : 10.1073 / pnas.93.7.2873 . PMID 8610134 . PMC 39726 (free full text).
  • KM Oliver, JA Russell, NA Moran, MS Hunter: Facultative bacterial symbionts in aphids confer resistance to parasitic wasps . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 100, No. 4, 2003, pp. 1803-1807. doi : 10.1073 / pnas.0335320100 . PMID 12563031 . PMC 149914 (free full text).
  • C. Dale, GR Plague, B. Wang, H. Ochman, NA Moran: Type III secretion systems and the evolution of mutualistic endosymbiosis . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 99, No. 19, 2002, pp. 12397-12402. doi : 10.1073 / pnas.182213299 . PMC 129456 (free full text).
  • V. Daubin, NA Moran, H. Ochman: Phylogenetics and the Cohesion of Bacterial Genomes . In: Science . 301, No. 5634, 2003, pp. 829-832. doi : 10.1126 / science.1086568 . PMID 12907801 .
  • KM Oliver, NA Moran, MS Hunter: Variation in resistance to parasitism in aphids is due to symbionts not host genotype . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 102, No. 36, 2005, pp. 12795-12800. doi : 10.1073 / pnas.0506131102 . PMC 1200300 (free full text).
  • NA Moran, PH Degnan, SR Santos, HE Dunbar, H. Ochman: Inaugural Article: The players in a mutualistic symbiosis: Insects, bacteria, viruses, and virulence genes . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 102, No. 47, 2005, pp. 16919-16926. doi : 10.1073 / pnas.0507029102 . PMC 1287993 (free full text).
  • Waldan K. Kwong, Nancy A. Moran: Cultivation and characterization of the gut symbionts of honey bees and bumble bees: description of Snodgrassella alvi gen. Nov., Sp. nov., a member of the family Neisseriaceae of the Betaproteobacteria, and Gilliamella apicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of Orbaceae fam. nov., Orbales ord. nov., a sister taxon to the order 'Enterobacteriales' of the Gammaproteobacteria. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, Volume 63, 6, October 5, 2012, doi : 10.1099 / IJS.0.044875-0 .
  • Waldan K. Kwong, Philipp Engel, Hauke ​​Koch, Nancy A. Moran: Genomics and host specialization of honey bee and bumble bee gut symbionts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (31), Aug. 5, 2014; Pp. 11509-11514. doi : 10.1073 / pnas.1405838111 .
  • Waldan K. Kwong, Nancy A. Moran: Gut microbial communities of social bees. Nature Reviews Microbiology 14, 2016; Pp. 374-384. doi : 10.1038 / nrmicro.2016.43 .
  • Waldan K. Kwong, Hao Zheng, Nancy A. Moran: Convergent evolution of a modified, acetate-driven TCA cycle in bacteria. Nature Microbiology 2, 2017; Article 17067. doi : 10.1038 / nmicrobiol.2017.67 .
  • Erick VS Motta, Kasie Raymann, Nancy A. Moran: Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (41), 2018; Pp. 10305-10310. doi : 10.1073 / pnas.1803880115 .

supporting documents

  1. ^ N. Zagorski: Profile of Nancy A. Moran . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 102, No. 47, 2005, pp. 16916-16918. doi : 10.1073 / pnas.0508498102 . PMID 16286644 . PMC 1288003 (free full text).
  2. ^ A b Nancy Moran University of Texas at Austin .
  3. ↑ Waldan K. Kwong, Nancy A. Moran: Cultivation and characterization of the gut symbionts of honey bees and bumble bees: description of Snodgrassella alvi gen. Nov., Sp. nov., a member of the family Neisseriaceae of the Betaproteobacteria, and Gilliamella apicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of Orbaceae fam. nov., Orbales ord. nov., a sister taxon to the order 'Enterobacteriales' of the Gammaproteobacteria. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, Volume 63, 6, October 5, 2012, doi : 10.1099 / IJS.0.044875-0 .
  4. ^ Publications , full list of publications by Nancy A. Moran, accessed March 6, 2019.
  5. ↑ Google Scholar Profile by Nancy A. Moran , accessed March 6, 2019.

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personal data
SURNAME Moran, Nancy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moran, Nancy Ann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Dallas , Texas